Fish Head Noodle

Speaking about Fish Head Noodle, many locals will be familiar with the milky soup, thick vermicelli and fish headm added with salted vegetable, sour plum, beancurd, tomato to enable the soury, refreshing taste. It's so savoury, tasty and appetizing.

 

Due to the economy of scale, we could only find it in hawker stall or food court which offers other type of noodle altogether but this fish head noodle I've found is very different.  

 

 

Ikar Fish Head noodle located at Jalan Ipoh, 3 1/2 miles opposite old town and Affin Bank. It's a Fish Head Noodle specialist! Other than the traditional Fish Head Noodle, it offers Curry, creamy pumpkin, black pepper, Xiao Xin Wine (绍兴酒), creamy cheese (Ahem, my favorite), bitter gourd, spicy tom yam and seaweed. Sounds convincing already right? You can also choose from Fish Head or Fillet, Fried or plain.

 

 

 

 

 Variety of Fish Head Noodles (RM7.50/bowl)

Today, I had a bowl of fish head noodle with Fried Fillet. I can't takes my eyes off  from the hot steamy milky soup except the fried fillet. It look so plain than what I expected to be crispy and crunchy. However it was super fanstatic and mouth watery only after I tasted it! The crust was soft blend with the soft dory fillet makes me craving for more! The whole thing only cost me RM7.5. Perhaps due to recent rains, enjoying a bowl of hot milky Fish Head Noodle in cold breezy weather was just awesome!

 

 

 

 

Hot steaming vermicelle soup

 

 

 The fried fish fillet served together with fish head noodle

 

 

 

Believe it or not, I get to know about this restaurant not because of Fish Head Noodle but it's porridge. It served variety of porridges and fried rice to cater more options for patrons. The porridge comes with mince meat, slice meat and meat fish ball in a big bowl at the price of hawker stall at only RM4.5 and the amount of ingredients given was fairly satisfying. Frankily I couldn't believe myself. Due to the recent market inflation, hawker food has increased it's price to the same region, but we are speaking about restaurant which offer cleaner and less indoor smokers thus a comfy environment to enjoy our food. So well.

I strongly recommend this restaurant whenever you craving for a fish head noodle. Don't be Kiasu lah, I don't get any incentives.

Below is the contact details:

 

iKar （一家) Fish Head Noodle

特式鱼头米粉

016-6779813

 

 

 

 

Porto Romano

Perhaps I 'm a bit old-fashioned, I like quiet place, enjoy companies, talks and laughs. I chose Porto Romano.  It attached to one of the residences in Mon't Kiara. I discover this place after moved into my new house. You might missed it when you passby as it's a small shop next to Wendy's but the regulars know where to find good food:).

So it has become one of my regular restaurants for dinning. Wait, I couldn't afford to dine here regularly but it's definitely first choice when comes to Birthday Celebration, dinning, and ...dating (Grins).  

My friend happen to be one of the "founders", so I'm lucky to get to listen the story beneath this great place. The cozy and warmth interior make you at feel home. A series of fine Oil Painting captured the beautiful sceneries from a country namely Republic of Armenia.

"These were painted by the wife's father, it illustrates scenes where she lived. Perhaps something to fill her yearning for home". Said Chris.

As you look around, you will be attracted by the collection of vintage posters (which is what I like most) populated everywhere in the restaurant.  Gentle embience and friendly gestures make you feel at ease as you walked into the restaurant. I particular like to walk up the stairs as you see arrays of vintage posters and variety of sea shell in sizes and shapes pinned against the wall. Will upload more pictures in due time.

Ever wonder what Porto Romano means? Flashed back to 13th century when Marco Polo imported noodles recipe from China, a man who was one of the pioneer explorer to the world. Port Rome became the transit point for many travellers to Europe and other continents. Variety recipes were shared around the region which enriched Port Rome to be the "hub" of good recipes. The restaurant was then named as Porto Romano. Beautiful name. Beautiful history. 

Today, Porto Romano brings the rich, variety unique Europe recipes which you might missed elsewhere. There were mixtures of cuisine from Portuguese, Spanish, Italy and perhaps some Armenia etc. Scrumptious!! 

If you opt for a glass or two, the mini bar served the purpose. You can have a glimpse of the vintage posters depicted below, that passion of the man who run this restaurant. Look out from the window, you'll see few tables displayed for those who love sun and fresh air. I like enjoy a few beers when the weather is breezy and chilling. 

Oh, I haven't shared what do I see up the stairs, have I? There is lot more to shows when I get to snap a few pictures. 

                              



Ben's

I'm a lost touched city women towards these happening cafe/restaurant. I find it mere marketing gimmick and not worth the money (Ok-lah, I'm getting old ==). Other reason is as a parent, you will slowly stay away from this lifestyle-happening-not value for money restaurant, which means you tend to be more practical on spending for the children sake.

So what am I trying to say? well the story goes like this.

I planned a birthday dinner and my city friends told me about this happening place name Ben's. A food chain restaurant run by former Delicious boss etc. As Delicious was somehow a good place to hangout and dinning, I opted Ben's located in Publika.

I called up for a reservation however booking was full, the Assistant Manager ask me to walk in instead which would required to wait for like 30 mins or so. Well, I proposed Marmalade but my city women friends prefer to Ben's, and for all you know, Marmalade is another food chain restaurant has this theme in yellow but do not accept booking, anyways it was closed for a private function. What? private function on Saturday? Are restaurant owner made so well to forgo business on Saturday? Oh Well.

To avoid waiting too long, me and TT went early to queue. We dressed up for Party (me and TT) happily walked into Bens. It was 7pm. Restaurant was full house, holy cow! We were late for the dinner, there were already a handfull of families in the queue, it appeared to me everyone was on the waiting list. So I get TT to wait at the line and I walked into restaurant to look for someone to put our name in the list. Everyone was busy, some even just try to ignore my eye contact!! I got someone finally to attend to me, came from back restaurant, look like he just seated a guest.

"Please queue up!!" He is an Indian in ethnic, dress in jeans and some color shirts, . He shouted at me and try to push me to the queue whilst taking down the table orders, I find it annoying. Then I realize everyone was awaiting for queue number!!

Well, since TT was in queue I took sometime to look at the cakes displayed at the cold storage.

" Please go to queue, miss!!" . The same Indian guy shouted at me again!! Well I was quite "Paiseh" (embarassed) over the shout made direct to me publicly, I find him rude and quite upset but I didn't want to take it personally to jeopardise my BIG DAY! What the hell if I would queue later? It doesn't hurt right?

The dinner went ok, food was satisfactory, something fusion  - I ordered a softshell crab in Pita Bread, it taste fusions ha. I guess this is the selling point - something extraordinary to offer than boring fix cuisine based menu.

So how do  I find overall services rendered? The food served pretty promptly, we didn't have to starve even there were over crowded orders, except it was pretty warm sitting there when the air-conditioner was on. I looked out from the restaurant, holy shit, the restaurant was really packed inside out!!.

Firstly I hardly hangout on weekend, I find it crowded especially places in down town (another sign of getting old==). Secondly I hardly spend on food like this, did I tell you I pledged for home cook? Oh well. I'm a person don't like eating out because I'm quite sicked of exotic cruisine and menu basically similar everywhere (Sounds like I've been to many expensive restaurants huh). Having said that hanging out once in a while is fun and good, with good companies of course.

If you ask me, I would prefer to "Porto Romano" or "Marmalade" or "Aliyaa", places less crowded where you could enjoy the ambiences and scrumptious food and great company!

I don't want to share "Porto Romano" as it might gets crowded one day (I'm not saying I carry such influence power, but I believed if you find it good, so does others, I'm a little selfish, blah). Anyway good stuff is meant to be shared, this place is really worth going.

Porto Romano served scrumptious food, price more or less as compared to Ben's. It's mid-level fine dinning restaurant but less crowd, sounds like a good deal. You can really enjoy quiet dining and company within. I guess, the positioning is bit differed from Ben's as the latter targetting hopping-to-be-seen young generation (ok, fine, don't reminder....old ==). So you can choose embience you would prefer to. 

Nonetheless, I celebrated my birthday at Ben's. Thank you, gals^^.